The official website and accounts for the highly anticipated Witch Hat Atelier anime adaptation today announced that the broadcast has been postponed from this year to 2026 in order to "deliver the series with the highest possible quality and to fully showcase its charm." Ayumu Watanabe ( Summer Time Rendering ) directs at studio BUG FILMS, with character designs by Kairi Unabara ( The Invisible Man and His Soon-to-Be Wife ) and music by Yuka Kitamura. RELATED: Witch Hat Atelier Creator and Anime Staff on Aiming to Conjure the Manga's Original Magic Kamome Shirahama first serialized the Witch Hat Atelier manga in the pages of Kodansha's Morning Two magazine in July 2016, with 14 volumes released in Japan to date. Crunchyroll previously confirmed it will release the anime adaptation as it airs in Japan for subscribers in North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East and CIS. Kodansha publishes the Witch Hat Atelier manga in English and describes the story: A beautifully-illustrated story about a girl who longs for magic in her life and learns that, on the inside, she already is what she wishes she could be. Reminiscent of Studio Ghibli, this lushly drawn story was voted one of the Top 10 manga of the year in 2018 by the Japanese manga industry. In a world where everyone takes wonders like magic spells and dragons for granted, Coco is a girl with a simple dream: she wants to be a witch. But everybody knows magicians are born, not made, and Coco was not born with a gift for magic. Resigned to her un-magical life, Coco is about to give up on her dream to become a witch … until the day she meets Qifrey, a mysterious, traveling magician. After secretly seeing Qifrey perform magic in a way she’s never seen before, Coco soon learns what everybody “knows” might not be the truth, and discovers that her magical dream may not be as far away as it may seem … Source: Official X (formerly Twitter)
